How To Make A Powerpoint Video Loop

Yous tin can perfectly insert a video on your PowerPoint slide. And yous can repeat information technology and fifty-fifty play over multiple slides. But when yous wanted to run a slide prove with messages and advertizement e.g. for digital signage purposes, then sometimes y'all desire to prove an independent playlist of multiple video files overall slides. And that is not possible with PowerPoint solitary.

Nosotros accept a PowerPoint plugin called Dynamic Videos that allow y'all to play multiple videos over your slide bear witness, repetitively and independent of the slide show.

So for example, you accept a screen at a mill. On a screen you bear witness a series of slides with information. In the right lower corner y'all desire to play safety videos, and sometimes a promotion and commercial. Merely link that surface area to a binder on your difficult drive and copy in (or remove) video files from your folder. Dynamic Videos will handle your multiple videos playlist without restarting the slide bear witness.

dynamic videos illustration television with multiple videos on PowerPoint

After the installation of Dynamic Videos, you will get a new entry in your PowerPoint ribbon named Dynamic Elements. Dynamic Videos is ane of the Dynamic Elements plugin that y'all tin can install.

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When yous desire to play multiple videos over your PowerPoint slides, and then nosotros take to set this upwardly at the slide master. Click to open the View ribbon options and click Slide Chief.

open slide master view to set multiple videos source

On the top slide of the slide principal (and non on a custom layout), there you add together a normal rectangle shape that will act as green screen for your videos. It is a rectangle because typically your videos are also in 16:ix or iv:three format. There is no need to correctly format the rectangle shape. It is merely there to betoken where you want to bear witness your videos. The moment that y'all start the slide evidence, this video rectangle or placeholder will exist set to invisible.

insert rectangle shape to act a green screen

With this rectangle selected now and still on the slide chief, look at the Dynamic Videos panel on the correct. Here you can add one or multiple video sources that you want to show on your video green screen.

Click the Add button to add a video source. Here you can choose to add an private video of your hard drive, a video via a URL link, or merely a folder that you used to drop in your videos. This can exist a locally shard folder on your figurer, or a folder share of a file server. The advantage of using a shared binder is that you can always use a second figurer to add more videos to the folder, or to remove one. Dynamic Videos volition listen to those changes and adapt accordingly.

set source of video or folder with video files

Add slides and information to your presentation. Set the transitions to automatic timed advancing. Ready the slide show type to kiosk so that it runs full screen and in an infinitive loop.

Run the slide show. The Dynamic Videos green screen shapes volition be fix to invisible and instead of the greenish screen yous will see your videos projected and likewise running in a continuous loop over your PowerPoint slideshow, independently of your slides. Ideal for information screen and digital signage scenes with a video overlay.